A likely lad lights up his home town

Travis Head's home town heroics and something ridiculous from Rishabh

India: 180 & 5-128 (R Pant 28no, Nitish Kumar Reddy 15no)

Australia: 337.

India trail by 29 runs .

At 5.59pm local time Travis Head was on 99 and frantic calls were being made in the Channel 7 box. Push the state news back, you got to push it back. It probably didn’t need to be said, in these parts they’d be leading the bulletin with it and preparing wrap arounds for the local newspaper. They’re nothing if not parochial over here.

Adelaide has never known a Saturday night like it. The rapture was at hand. A stream of members had abandoned the hospitality tents and were packed 10 deep on the concourses. Every single seat in those stands were taken. Every breath held in anticipation.

Head had smashed his way into the 90s, pasting a series of quartet of boundaries off Harshit Rana before nudging a single to get him to this point at 6.01pm.

Back to the news.